In northern Manchester’s NOMA development, PLANT is a design studio and exhibition space housed in a renovated Dutch Modernist-style building. It hosts weekly pottery-making evenings where beginners or more practised hands can get clay between their fingers. Look out for other events too, which have included lino-printing and learning how to make terrariums (plantnoma.com).
MYO (‘Make Your Own’) Peckham opened earlier this year in a multi-storey car park turned creative space in south London. The vibe in the tutorials is expert but relaxed (the BYO policy helps with that) and there’s a huge range of classes on offer to adults, from T-shirt design to modern calligraphy (myo.place).